Fixing the Oscars

The Oscars are an event and an institution, a particular lens through which to evaluate and embrace something that we already enjoy. They’re great to both celebrate and lambast, to mock and simultaneously embrace – selectively, perhaps – be it for the fanfare, the accolades, the communal gathering, or the gambling.

The Oscars only mean as much as we invest in them, and invest in them we do; perhaps because it’s the last awards show of the season, we deem it more important than others. Or because those in attendance aren’t getting drunk, it’s more respectable…